Andrew Israel Ross

@aiross

Associate Professor of History at Loyola University Maryland. History of Sexuality, Modern Europe, Feminist and Queer Studies. 🏳️‍🌈

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Andrew Israel Ross@aiross· 3d

With disrespect Ms. Maxwell doesn't know fuck all about what education actually is www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/u...

Jenny Maxwell, general manager for education at Superhuman, the A.I. company that makes the popular writing app Grammarly, told me that we are living through a “burn it down” moment for teaching and learning. *Educators who try to withhold A.I. writing tools are essentially announcing to their students — “consumers,” she called them — that their coursework is irrelevant to the job market.*

She did acknowledge that some basic, human writing skills remain valuable. Students need to write well enough to have a sense of which A.I. text suggestions to accept and which to reject, she said. Ms. Maxwell also insisted that creativity in writing would persist, because people would still want to express their personal voice and style.

Andrew Israel Ross@aiross· 13d

This project was a real struggle to bring over the finish line (we began it before Covid), but thanks to my amazing contributors, most of whom aren't on here but @hannahfrydman.bsky.social @nmw1.bsky.social are!

Table of contents of A Cultural History of Prostitution in the Age of Empire:

Introduction by Andrew Israel Ross
1. Prostitution and the State by Philip Howell
2. Prostitution and Identity by Sandy F. Chang
3 Prostitution and the Market by Hannah Frydman
4 Prostitution Religion and Morality by Sara E. Lampert and Andrew Israel Ross
5 Prostitution, Medicine, Health and the Body by Nancy Wingfield
6 Prostitution and the Visual and Performing Arts by Sara E. Lampert
7 Prostitution and Literature by Jacob Meister

Andrew Israel Ross@aiross· 13d

Coming soon! 🗃️

Cover page of "A Cultural History of Prostitution in the Age of Empire."

Andrew Israel Ross@aiross· Jul 18

You love to see it

Screenshot showing Baltimore air quality as good

Andrew Israel Ross@aiross· Jun 25

My new self care routine is to find a whiskey bar with an excellent burger whenever I travel

À rye Manhattan sits near a burger and fat fries

Andrew Israel Ross@aiross· May 12

Me for the rest of my life

Screenshot from Gundam unicorn featuring an instructor telling students "Don't blow off studying history because you think it won't help you get a job."

Andrew Israel Ross@aiross· May 6

I'm not active on threads but sometimes there're some gems there

Post from threads that reads "I feel like professors should be required to check their emails regularly on days big tests/exams are due. Why did my professor not respond to my question until 7 HOURS later on the day my final is due?? Nobody has the time to wait that long for a response when the exam is due TODAY."

Andrew Israel Ross@aiross· Apr 5

Uhhh...

Andrew Israel Ross@aiross· Apr 5

Not sure I like the new air and space museum

An advertisement for Amazon prime air masquerade as information

Andrew Israel Ross@aiross· Mar 23

I feel seen www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

"A child usually won'T be able to do this -- not because children are less intelligent, but because auditing requires the exact domain knowledge that the child is supposed to be developing. You cannot check an AI's analysis of heredity if you don't yet understand what heredity is. [Highlighted:] You cannot evaluate an AI's interpretation of the French Revolution if you've never read conflicting accounts of it yourself."

Andrew Israel Ross@aiross· Mar 16

I wonder how I could find the answer to these questions without using AI 🤔 www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

List of questions for an AI chatbot regarding a USA Today Article. What was the jduge's key argument in the salsa lawsuit? How do recent food lawsuits compare in rulings? How did Villa's Tacos gain national attention? Explain a big story in simple terms.

Andrew Israel Ross@aiross· Feb 18

I used to regularly post course syllabi on my website because of how useful I always found others' work, but am thinking I need to take them all down not because I'm afraid of being canceled, but because I don't want them used for training AI www.carleton.edu/ai/blog/gram...

The AI grader is probably the strangest of Grammarly’s AI tools. It is built to predict what grade your document would receive if it were graded for a class. To receive a “grade,” you can upload your assignment rubric, enter your class section, and enter your instructor’s name. Grammarly then searches the web for publicly available information about your instructor and that class (RateMyProfessor reviews, public syllabi, public assignments, etc.). Note that some of this information may have been uploaded without the consent of the instructor. It then tries to simulate the grade and feedback that professor would give.

Andrew Israel Ross@aiross· Feb 16

I am an extremely geeky elder millennial who knew exactly what he wanted for his birthday

Andrew Israel Ross@aiross· Feb 10

I have finally found the one thing my dog hates in this world and it is this machine

Andrew Israel Ross@aiross· Jan 21

Baltimore freaks out when flurries are in the forecast so just imagine what people are saying about this weekend forecast www.wbaltv.com/article/balt...

"Based on the European model, as of Tuesday, there could be... 1) An 80% chance of 3 inches or more of snow accumulation; 2) A 65% chance of 6 inches or more; 3) A 20% chance of 12 inches or more"

Andrew Israel Ross@aiross· Jan 16

Politico knows where to go to get the perspective it wants www.politico.com/news/magazin...

"The announcement reverberated through the American academy; anyone who has spent time on a college campus over the past decade understandes these concerns. In Heterodox Acadmy's 2020 Campus Expression Survey, 62 percent of responding students said they believed their campus climate prevented students from saying things they believed. A 2024 survey, by FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Epression, found that 35 percent of faculty self-censored or toned down their written work -- about four times the rate reported by social scientists in 1954, at McCarthyisms's peak."

Andrew Israel Ross@aiross· Jan 12

Never forget

Image of a safety sign that reads: "Caution: Icy. Walk Like a Penguin." With a happy penguin in the middle.

Andrew Israel Ross@aiross· Dec 22

Oh for fucks sake

Andrew Israel Ross@aiross· Dec 16

Y'know you think you can't be shocked any more but then

A tweet from Tommy Tuberville that reads, in part, "Islam is not a religion. It's a cult. Islamists aren't here to assimilate They're here to conquer."

Andrew Israel Ross@aiross· Dec 15

Fuck you @microsoft.com stop this shit

Andrew Israel Ross@aiross· Dec 13

Narrator: "it was not rock bottom"

An excerpt a book with the words "Rock bottom - or what one hopes is rock bottom - came on January 6, 2021" highlighted

Andrew Israel Ross@aiross· Dec 2

I'm not the only one who sees it right?

Screenshot of a disheveled Syril from the TV show Andor

Andrew Israel Ross@aiross· Oct 10

Someone stop this

Screenshot from Outlook showing the AI summarize option

Andrew Israel Ross@aiross· Sep 20

Yolo

Andrew Israel Ross@aiross· Sep 14

This week is going to drive me insane www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

A pull-quote from the New York: "The students who spoke at the vigil on Thursday described Kirk as a man of deep fath, 'a symbol of peace in the midst of chaos,' someone who sought to 'make change through respectful discussion'a dn was dedicated to 'keeping the conversation going' and 'educating the youth and lessening the political divide on college campuses.' He was a martyr for free speech: 'It doesn't take more than a few moments' scrolling through the comments section on one of Kirk's social-media posts to see the hate he received every day for simply having conversations,' a student from Pro-Life Aggies said."

Andrew Israel Ross@aiross· Sep 4

This is an important article, but it still makes the same frustrating rhetorical moves as so much of the discourse around RFK Jr. Why, knowing that he hates vaccination, is "despite" the right word here? It's not! www.vox.com/health/46008...

Andrew Israel Ross@aiross· Aug 6

These spam texts are starting to get really weird

Screenshot of a spam text asking me to eat steak

Andrew Israel Ross@aiross· Jun 30

Having now finally read one of his giant books, it completely tracks that King would be the featured vote for Oppenheimer, a movie about boys blowing things up and the girls who loved them. (I know its about more than that and I actually also really liked it). www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Screenshot of a summary of Openheimer from the NYTimes Best 100 films of the 21st century.

Andrew Israel Ross@aiross· Jun 20

In what world does this reflect the actual reality of British immigration policy pre-Starmer? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/o...